Are Homegrown Interconnects shielded??

No, no sheild. You may or may not need sheild. They have a 30 day trail on pre-made, but not on the kits.

As already noted, they are not shielded. However, the braided design used by Kimber and HomeGrownAudio tends to reduce problems from RFI, etc. I have the Silver Lace cable between my preamp and power amp, and Silver Solution interconnect on all of my components. The equipment is in a large entertainment center, next to a 32" direct view TV, and I have not noted any particular problems due to lack of shielding.

Hello Sdcampbell. How have you been? What are your impressions of the Silver Lace? I am using this cable between my CD player and my integrated amp currently. I originally installed it between my tuner and int amp. Just to give it a 10 day continuous break - in. Of course I wanted to hear what it sounded like right out of the box. Initial impressions - WHOOAAA!!! The cable sounded HUGE. Dynamic, powerful, menacing bass. I almost thought it overshadowed the rest of the spectrum, but I later saw that everything was there. I have never been this impressed by an interconnect before. I have now had it for over 3 months. I still find the sound big. But, there is also warmth, smoothness, liquidity, and detail. I have tried many cables in the past. This one will not be coming out of my system for a while.

I have both the silver lace and the Kimber KCAG in my system, and to be honest, I still prefer the Kimber. It may be that it has been broken in for longer - it has hundreds of hours on it, while the silver lace has perhaps only about 30 hours. I hooked up both cables between my Bryston BP20 Preamp and my Bryston 3bst (the KCAG is balanced, and the Silver lace is RCA). I switched between both by using a switch at the back of the amp that allows you to change inputs to the amp. Overall, I found the KCAG was more lievely and expressive IMHO.